Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-11-09
NO. 5.
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

the Antl-COnclerge.
"A railroad eightv-5ix miles long
which runs to the summit of the Andes
near Lima, Perue. has already cost the
Government $25 900, OO0
President Diaz has shown special
favors to D.. Mathildo Montoya, the
first woman to become a regular prac-
ticing physicians in Mexico
The Au5tro-HuHgarian regulars
and militia are to be supplied with
Manlichor repeating rifles by 1891.
The number required will be l, 1,2O0,-
900, and the cost will be 43 900, 900
forms. It will take the empire ten
years to pay for the weap rs.
In the city of M xico every body
lives over a shop, if the house be two
stories, or uses the lower floor for
stabling the horses, quar- ering the
servants, etc Even the millionaires
often rent the ground floor Of their
swell residences for business purposes.
The English co operatives have
bank whose transactions amount to
$50 600 eco :: jr. I =" l. 400
stores, and do a business Of Y150, 000,-
600 year. Their 900, 900 memb bers re-
ceive an annual profit of $15 000 600.
Their profits during the past twenty
four years have $50 900, co.,
There is firm in Berlin that en-
ploys two hundred girls who manufact-
ure little bundles Of antise ptic dressing
material, with which all German SOL
diers are to be supplied in future, so
that they may be able to dress their
own wounds in the absence of q surgeon.
The girls are all dressed in white linen
cloak5 and are strictly forbidden to
bring victuals or any thing else into
the 10 ,m where they work.
The results of the survey and last
census of India are that the area of
the Peninsula of Hindostan is 1, 382,-
624 squaro miles, and the population
253 891 821 Although immense tracts
of country are annually cultivated, ac-
cording to the most recent survey 1O,-
O0O 900 acres of land, suitable for cul-
tivation, have not as yet been plowed.
At the same time, 120, 600 900 of acres
are returned as waste land. Public
Opinion.
The Botanic Garden at Oxford is
celebrate for its collection of aquatic
plants. The colored water lilies are
especially handsome this year, includ-
ing the blue water lily from the Nile
and the red water lily from the Ganges.
The former opens in the day time, but
the latter then remains closed, open
ing at night. 'It is pity" says a
recent visitor to the garden, ''that
these floral peacocks do not show their
tails together. IN Y Ledger.
-Amesican newspapers are read
here now much more that they former
ly were, and the Mexican people are
becoming somewhat familiar with
affairs in the United States. Still it is
a depIorable fact that the American
and Mexican people know less about
each other than they do about the
principal nations of Europe, whereas
the very contiguity of their respective
territories make it desirable and
almost necessary that the reverse
should be the case. The I10O Repat6-
lics, City of lMeatco.
-Tolstoi says there are three kinds
of love in Rassia-elegant love, de-
voted love and active love. Elegant
love is a refined feeling of which one
does not care to speak in a common
way. and so it is customary to speak
of it only in French. Says he: '.It is
an absurd and grotesque thing to say,
but [ am convinced that there have
been and are-in certain circle
many persons, especially women, in
whom the love they feel for friends,
husbands and children would cease the
moment it was forbidden to be ex-
pressed in French. -
Sir Horace Rumbold. formerly
British Minister to the Argentine Re-
public, has written work on that part
OF South America, in which he says
that bird life on the pampas, or South
American prairies is so abundant as
to produce the effect of an open-air
aviary. Brilliant little creatures,
with red OF yellow breasts, cardinals,
magpies and oven birds dart in and
out of the grass and bushes in every
direction, while in the higher regions
numerous hawks and kites hover
ominously over these tempting pre-
serves All are fearless in the pres
ence of man. except the ur-winged
plover, an unfortunate bird, much dis
liked, and described as the spy and
scold of the pampas. 1t has a hand
some, glossy plumage of lavender and
black, and a shrill. discordant voice.
with which it pursues the sportsman,
frightening away game = " T.
Ledger.